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Life was a series of messes, and one spent one's time cleaning them up if one had any heart at all one also gave a part of one's time to cleaning up those of other people.
Phyllis Bottome
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Phyllis Bottome
Age: 81 †
Born: 1882
Born: May 31
Died: 1963
Died: August 22
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Phyllis Forbes Dennis
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death ... is not a great affair! Think - it happens once only - to each of us - as birth does. What do you know about being born? that - and no more - will you know about the act of death.
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... can life be made undignified by any act of man?
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Human beings don't show, any more than cities at dusk, their real necessities! And yet if you looked -- past the circle of outside lights, through the street walls still standing -- into the want and emptiness within!
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Some of us cling to our curses if we haven't anything better to cling to!
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All persecution is a sign of fear for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should not mind others holding it.
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hurt vanity is one of the cruelest of mortal wounds.
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Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.
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It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.
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if you listen long enough - or is it deep enough? - the silence of a lover can speak plainer than any words! Only you must know how to listen. Pain must have taught you how.
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Truth is its own defense.
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I wonder how often not the intention but the desire springs up in a doctor's mind: 'Can I let this human being out of the trap of Life?
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... one pets what one degrades and one has to support what one has enfeebled
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Jane had that happy disposition which would like to imagine that every one really wishes the well-being of his neighbour and struggles, though sometimes rather disastrously, to help him towards it.
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If one has one cow, it is always better not to be too familiar with those who have seven.
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When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings.
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That a Jew is despised or persecuted is bad for him, of course-but far worse for the Christian who does it-for although persecuted he can remain a good Jew-whereas no Christian who persecutes can possibly remain-if he ever was one-a good Christian.
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A refugee is as helpless as a new born child - but not so appealing! Besides, a new born child has no memories!
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A desire that has never been fulfilled is considerably less acute than one that has been fulfilled and then checked at the source.
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Lots of men hate women now-a-days. ... It was a man-made world, and now we're asking to go shares in the making.
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it must depend as much upon the patient's willingness to be cured, as upon the physician's skill in curing. There is neither force not magic in psychiatry.
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